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24 August 2010
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) is urging the public to take part in a new survey which aims to find out more about disabled people’s experiences of claiming benefits.
The online survey can be accessed through the following link - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/dbcsurvey - and takes no more than 15 minutes to complete.
It includes questions about what people think about work, and if they have ever claimed Employment and Support Allowance – the new benefit for people who cannot work due to ill health or disability. The survey also asks questions about Housing Benefit and Disability Living Allowance to find out more about how people use these benefits.
The DBC, which is organising the survey, represents over 30 charities and other organisations, including Leonard Cheshire Disability, Arthritis Care and Breast Cancer Care.
The survey’s findings will be used to help the Government better understand the impact changes to benefits like Incapacity Benefit, Disability Living Allowance and Housing Benefit will have on disabled people.
Rebecca Rennison, Senior Policy Officer at Leonard Cheshire Disability and Co-chair of the DBC’s policy group says: “We are urging as many people as possible to take part in the survey. The findings will not only be used to influence government policy but will also highlight just how important benefits are to those who need them.”
We are doing a survey to find out more about your experiences of the benefits system. We are going to use the information we get from the survey to help the Government better understand the impact changes to benefits like Incapacity Benefit, Disability Living Allowance and Housing Benefit will have on disabled people. We will also use the information to make people more aware of how important benefits are.
You can take the survey here (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/dbcsurvey).
The survey asks about what you think about work and then asks if you have ever claimed Employment and Support Allowance which is the new benefit for people who cannot work due to ill health or disability. The survey then asks questions about Housing Benefit and Disability Living Allowance to find out more about how people use these benefits.
The survey is open to all disabled people. You can either fill it in yourself or ask someone else to fill it in for you.
The survey will run until 20th October 2010. However, the sooner you reply the better. If we get a lot of responses very quickly we can pass some of this early information onto Government as we try and safeguard key disability benefits.
If you want more information or advice about claiming benefits you can contact your local Citizens Advice Bureau. You can find where your nearest bureau is by visiting http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/getadvice.htm
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